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Siemens CEO, family die in New York helicopter crash

 


Six people, including a senior Siemens executive and his family, died when a sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River in New York on Thursday.

All occupants of the aircraft, including the pilot and the family of Agustin Escobar, CEO of a Siemens subsidiary, perished in the crash.

Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital but later succumbed to their injuries.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter crash in which Agustin Escobar and his family lost their lives,” Siemens told AFP on Friday.

US media reports, including from NBC News, identified one of the other victims as Escobar’s wife, Merce Camprubi.


Siemens Energy, a former subsidiary of Siemens, confirmed to AFP that a “colleague” at the company was killed in the crash alongside Escobar and the pilot, without specifying that it was Escobar’s wife.


The bodies of all six victims, including three children, have been recovered from the water, Mayor Eric Adams said at a briefing earlier, after calling it a “heartbreaking and tragic crash.”

The helicopter’s landing skids were seen protruding from the river beside a tunnel vent as several boats clustered around the crash site.


Police from both New York and New Jersey, which is on the opposite side of the river from Manhattan, responded to the scene along with fire department vessels.


The NBC4 channel reported that its own helicopter was unable to take off because of weather conditions in New York on Thursday that were gusty with thick cloud cover.


A witness told AFP it appeared as if the helicopter’s rotor blade “shattered in the sky.”


“And after it shattered, then we saw the helicopter just spiral… And then it just crashed into the water just like that,” said fashion designer, Belle Angel.


The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the aircraft was a Bell 206 helicopter.


“The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” it said. search button



Six people, including a senior Siemens executive and his family, died when a sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River in New York on Thursday.


All occupants of the aircraft, including the pilot and the family of Agustin Escobar, CEO of a Siemens subsidiary, perished in the crash.


Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital but later succumbed to their injuries.


“We are deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter crash in which Agustin Escobar and his family lost their lives,” Siemens told AFP on Friday.


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US media reports, including from NBC News, identified one of the other victims as Escobar’s wife, Merce Camprubi.


Siemens Energy, a former subsidiary of Siemens, confirmed to AFP that a “colleague” at the company was killed in the crash alongside Escobar and the pilot, without specifying that it was Escobar’s wife.


The bodies of all six victims, including three children, have been recovered from the water, Mayor Eric Adams said at a briefing earlier, after calling it a “heartbreaking and tragic crash.”



The helicopter’s landing skids were seen protruding from the river beside a tunnel vent as several boats clustered around the crash site.


Police from both New York and New Jersey, which is on the opposite side of the river from Manhattan, responded to the scene along with fire department vessels.


The NBC4 channel reported that its own helicopter was unable to take off because of weather conditions in New York on Thursday that were gusty with thick cloud cover.


A witness told AFP it appeared as if the helicopter’s rotor blade “shattered in the sky.”


“And after it shattered, then we saw the helicopter just spiral… And then it just crashed into the water just like that,” said fashion designer, Belle Angel.


The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the aircraft was a Bell 206 helicopter.


“The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” it said.

President Donald Trump described the crash as “terrible.”


“The footage of the accident is horrendous. God bless the families and friends of the victims,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.


– ‘Heartbreaking’ –


The river is a busy shipping channel and was the scene of a dramatic 2009 incident when a US Airways jet landed safely in the water. All 155 people on board escaped alive in an event dubbed the “Miracle on the Hudson.”


The river is as deep as 200 feet (60 meters) at points, and an AFP correspondent saw what appeared to be floatation devices deployed on the helicopter’s skids.


The average temperature of the river is 46 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius) at this time of year, according to the US Geological Survey.


“Three adults and three children were on board a Bell 206 helicopter that had left from the downtown Skyport at just

 about 3 pm,” Adams said, adding that the tourists were a family from Spain.


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